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    Arghhh! Mediadirect and dell

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by JuBeZ, Sep 18, 2008.

  1. JuBeZ

    JuBeZ Notebook Enthusiast

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    So I heard about this horrendous thing that happens when you press the dell mediadirect button if you're dual booting. Shikes! So I thought hey, I'll prevent this from ever happening by deleting my Dell MediaDirect partition! YAY! Good idea right? I thought so too. When I reboot my laptop, (note I've NEVER pressed the Dell Mediadirect button at this point) I get the god **** grub error 17. So I go to youtube, where there is a fix posted for this problem. I give that a try, doesn't work. Luckily (or so I thought) I created a hard drive image with acronis true image. But just as I was about to restore it, I find out you get in major deep sh!t if you have Dell MediaDirect 2, but not 3. So most importantly, how do I know if I have MD2 or MD3? BTW, I'm running BIOS A09 if that helps any.

    Also, I threw in my Vista Recovery Disc and tried doing startup recovery and that hoo ha. Nothing happened. I entered fixmbr into the recovery console but it said it didn't recognize the command. ***? I know it worked on XP for me before. Is there a different command for Vista?

    Until I hear from you much more knowlegeable people, I won't be restoring my Acronis just in case it makes my computer even more lovely. So right now, I'm somewhat computerless.

    BTW, it's a Dell XPS M1530 with a 200GB HDD, dual booting Vista and Ubuntu flawlessly until now.

    And one more thing, I LOVE DELL!
     
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    kuncheesh Notebook Evangelist

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    infact i have been little slow on these recent developments and doesnt know what horrendous things happens when we press the media direct button. can u post me a link that would explain. there is a simple way to find the version of media direct. look on the label on Media direct disk that was shipped with the machine
     
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  3. JuBeZ

    JuBeZ Notebook Enthusiast

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    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=628229

    Ah thanks, turns out I have 3.5. I think I'm gonna use the hard drive image. But I want to make sure that MediaDirect is removed permanently. Does anyone know how to do this? Should I reinstall Vista, then apply the image for my vista partition? or what? Thanks for any input.
     
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  4. Cin'

    Cin' Anathema

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    This is one of the reasons I got *rid of* Media Direct...problems like these.. :eek:

    It works for some peep's, and others it simply doesn't....depends on the person.. ;)

    It's too bad you had these troubles... :(


    Cin ;) :)
     
    Cin', Sep 19, 2008
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